Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-02-12
NEWS.
Terrible Floods and Ice Georges at
Lyons and Jackson.
SEVERAL HOUSES WASHED AWAY AND
ENTIRELY DEMOLISHED.
A Young Woman Cuts OF Fer caild's
Head and Puts II IN a Stove.
oTTo WHITE SHOOTS ELIZABETH WHITE
AND MS sIEp.MoTHER.
An Accident on the Cleveland and
Pittsburg Railway.
THE EFFORTS or DISTRICT ASSEMBLY NO.
FoRrY.AIRE PROVES A FAILURE.
0TT0 WHITE SHOOTS ELIZABETH Whit
AND HIS sIEP.MoIHER.
An Accident on the Cleveland and
P~ittsburg Railway.
THE EFFORTS or DISTRICT ASSEMBLY NO
FoRTY.HIaE PROVES A FAILURE.
ESPECIAL TO THE sESrrSKL.l
Terrific Flood.

L1ONs, HllCu., TcU. ANON
here is simply terrible. A panic has
seized some OF the people, and 1t Is
impossible to estimate the losses.
The water in some places is four feet
deep in many residences, and the
same state OF affairs prevailes in the
storerooms. Everybody is moving,
or preparing to move. Last night wa
the most exciting this village has ever
experienced. Up to last night three
buildings had been washed away and
demolished, and many others were
badly damaged. At Muir the same
serious conditions prevail, and the
merchants have abandoned their
| stores. Advices from other points are
| to the same effect, but Lyons seems
to be the worst. Three rivers is sur
| rounded with water. All the shops
have been closed at that point. I'm
mense lumber piles are afioat. The
| Lake Shore railway track is in great
| danger OF being washed away. At
| Owosso six inches of snow fell last
| night, and the river is still rising.
A Monroe special says the river has
| been slowly raising for the last "a
hours, but the ice has broken, giving
a free passage to the lake. The banks
of the river are lined with immense
walls OF ice, raising s or 10 feet above
| the present high water mark, and
| great fields OF ice of the same thick
ness fill all the streets adjacent to the
river.
At Jackson the pressure OF water
in Grand river, and in the millpond
above the city, was too great, and
last night all the sluices were opened,
with the result that the water rose
several feet, and the Grand Trunk
bridge is now under water. The Gel
lars in the business blocks in the cen
ter of the town are all flooded from Is
inches to two feet. The State Fair
grounds are completely submerged,
and on a large tract of land in the
southern part of this city the water is
up to the doors of the dwellings. The
prison walls stand in the midst OF a
lake.
JACKSON, Mich, Feb. ia slight
abatement of the foods was noticed
last night, but it is raging with I'M
bated fury. This morning the rain
fell in torrents until about midnight
when it changed to snow, and by day
light fully eight inches of snow and
sleet had fallen. There is a regular
northwestern high wind. The water
has risen two feet in the last four
hours and is still raising. The peo-
pie are working night and day to save
their property. Maple and Grand
rivers unite here, and both are raging
1t is impossible to give complete es-
Inmates of the damage done. Should
the Lansing ice reach here before the
gorge gives way, all the business
places on both sides of Main street
will be washed away. A rough es-
innate of the damages make an ag-
gregate OF between 100000 and $780,
900.
Refused to obey Orders.
New York, Feb. 1.-THE order
calling on the engineers employed on
the steamship and railroad piers, tc
60 on a strike, so far as the piers Of
the river fronts are concerned, has
proven a dead letter. A visit to the
docks this morning failed to discover
a single instance where stationary
engineers had quit work. A visit to
the breweries showed that all the
employees were at work, and the men
stated that they have positively re-
fused to obey orders to stop work
and join the army of strikers.
New YORK, Feb. 1.-THE yard en-
gineers, brewers, and eccentric engi-
neers refused point blank to obey the
orders of the District Assembly
Knights of Labor. At the headquarters
of the Assembly this morning the re-
ports of the delegates who had been
sent out to see what steps the engineers
were taking in the matter of obeying
the order, reported that the men re-
fused to quit work. The report from
the breweries is equally discouraging,
and it was generally admitted that the
last efforts OF Assembly No. 40 had
proven a failure.
A number Of 'l~ongshoremen stood
around the headquarters, and several
| openly declared that they would go to
work unless more financial aid from
their Union was granted them. A
similar opinion wa expressed by other
men, and it would not be surprising if
there was a general break in the ranks
of the strikers at any moment.
The freight handlers formerly en-
ployed on the New York & Northwest
ern railroad, yesterday sent delegate
Allen to ask the foreman to take back
the strikers without exception. He
replied that as the Union men had
struck work without giving any warn
ing, they could not come back. All
the new men have been promised per-